[Lanolderen]

You have glue on Lotus chassis for example so glue can be structural in automotive. AFAIK it's just unrepairable. Feel free to correct me..

Edit: For non car peeps, Lotus build essentially track day cars with a light chassis and as many parts from popular manufacturers as possible to keep maintenance cheap. They see a lot of abuse.

[Suppafly]

Every car on the road today has tons of stuff held together with glue, most people commenting here don't realize that though.

[dagw]

Lotus build essentially track day cars

They used to at least. These days they seem to mostly be focusing on electric SUVs and GT cars.

[chneu]

Lotus doesn't make cars to last. They make them for the track and it's assumed the owners will be doing more than normal maintenance.

[Lanolderen]

Eh.. Kinda? There are plenty of running 25 y/o elises with over 100k km on them. Definitely with more maintenance than normal but it'd be mostly consumables and those 100k km won't be gentle. I doubt under the same conditions even a Toyota or Honda would wear better (and they don't have to).